Ninth Circuit Preparing for Oral Argument in Mazzei

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February 6, 2020

We have previously reported at length on the taxpayers’ pending appeal in Mazzei involving the Tax Court’s rejection on substance-over-form grounds of what the IRS has described as an “abusive Roth IRA transaction,” notwithstanding the Sixth Circuit’s pro-taxpayer ruling in Summa Holdings regarding essentially the same kind of transaction.

Oral argument in the case is scheduled for February 14, and the Ninth Circuit has now announced the three-judge panel that will hear the case:  Senior Circuit Judge Jay Bybee (appointed by Bush in 2003), Circuit Judge Daniel Collins (appointed by Trump in 2019), and Senior District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz (appointed by Clinton in 1995).